Diddy's Legal Team Insists 'Freak Off' Videos Show 'Fully Consenting Adults,' Nothing Illegal

The media mogul's team is requesting copies of the footage.

The legal team for Sean “Diddy” Combs has requested copies of the “freak off” tapes set to be used as evidence in Combs’ ongoing sex trafficking case, arguing in a filing that the recordings show only consensual sex acts.

“Contrary to what the government has led this Court and the public to believe, the so-called ‘Freak Offs’ were private sexual activity between fully consenting adults in a long-term relationship,” reads the request, which was filed Tuesday and obtained by HuffPost.

Combs’ ex, Casandra Ventura, a model and singer widely known as Cassie, claimed in a swiftly settled lawsuit in November 2023 that Combs would force her to engage in sexual relations with male sex workers as he watched and directed her. He referred to those encounters as “freak offs,” her lawsuit claimed. In the months after Cassie’s lawsuit, numerous other suits followed.

The “freak offs” were sometimes days long. Ventura accused him of forcing participants to take ketamine, MDMA and the date rape drug GBH in order to keep them “obedient and compliant,” then-U.S. Attorney Damian Williams previously said.

Prosecutors reportedly have nine videos of “freak offs” involving “Victim-1,” who requested that the videos not be produced “to protect her privacy,” according to the document.